Dana E. Becker is a litigator who handles complex business disputes, primarily commercial contract cases and disputes involving business competition, trade secrets, intellectual property, and various business torts, in both US federal and state courts as well as alternative dispute resolution proceedings. Dana also has experience in antitrust and class action litigation as well as government investigations and qui tam actions brought under the False Claims Act. Dana handles all phases of litigation, from pre-complaint investigations through complex discovery, trial, and post-trial appeals.
Dana has federal jury trial experience, which includes preparing witnesses to give testimony, examining witnesses, and preparing and opposing pre- and post-trial motions and other submissions.
Dana has knowledge across a broad range of industries, including the medical device, pharmaceutical, technology, publishing, energy, financial services, and insurance industries. She also has experience managing a portfolio of litigation and providing strategic business advice, including based on her time as in-house counsel managing commercial litigation for a global media and technology company. Dana works closely with both large and small clients to develop and implement risk management strategies.
Dana maintains an active pro bono practice, including serving as trial counsel in a federal trial of a disability rights matter that culminated in a jury verdict and an award of damages in her client’s favor and representing a client in a successful petition for asylum. In addition, she has served as a member of the Philadelphia office’s Recruiting Committee. Prior to joining the firm, Dana clerked for Judge Franklin S. Van Antwerpen of the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Immediately prior to attending law school, she worked as a senior analyst at a global investment bank, providing debt capital markets solutions for clients in the telecom, media, and technology space.
40 & Under Hot List, Benchmark Litigation (2020)
Recommended, Dispute resolution: General commercial disputes, The Legal 500 US (2020)
Member, American Bar Association
Editor-In-Chief, Temple Law Review
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